A more realistic way to fight this is to make Lava layer programs less harmful by keeping documentation and testing efforts consistent throughout the project (a

A more realistic way to fight this is to make Lava layer programs less harmful by keeping documentation and testing efforts consistent throughout the project (and back filling when previous developers didn't). The constant narrative in the example is developers having no idea why and where things are built a certain way. With more information and verification, gradual changes and refactors can be more manageable. Avoiding Lava layer applications is not feasible, so calling it an anti-pattern is silly.